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“In my days we had it harder”
“In my days we had it harder” “nobody now would be able to do what we used to” “today’s children will never know” every morning I wake up to the pleasure of my phone by my face and straight away check my social media. I continue to scroll seeing all the supermodels and influencers with perfectly smooth skin and flat stomachs I then get up walk to the mirror squish my fat and pick apart every thing about my body comparing myself to the perfect pictures on social media. So I go down stairs after this and run as far as possible on a tread mil before I pass out before going to the kitchen and counting al my calories to the extent I don’t even enjoy eating the food. Then I check Facebook to see a man of colour being suffocated by a white man until he dies and him showing no mercy for his actions. At 5 o’clock the coronavirus daily briefing comes on and I remember how I have exams next year and have not been taught for almost 3 months of, I haven’t had any social interactions and I am supposed to be completely fine with a whole new reality never experienced. So yes we never had to deal with a war and have more equality and opportunity, but we have a right to feel sad and depressed without being told were being dramatic or “we have it so much easier”. The world has changed and so the causes of our emotions have too, we are not simply ungrateful or spoilt or vain for being sad about what we look like as we are constantly reminded we do not look like the ideal body type. Yes we have more equality but at the same time we have more platforms for racial abuse and hate to be spread and yes we are not living through a war and dealing with the hardship but we are dealing with a worldwide pandemic resulting in extinction level deaths. As the younger generation we may never know what you went through exactly, but to say that the reasons why we are low or depressed are shallow or to say you had it harder is unfair as if you compare the changes in all aspects of life today and life 60 years ago it is completely different
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There's a low EQ-ness that exists among boomers not as individuals, not as an age group, but as a culture embedded in that age group. Not all boomers are like this, but the toxic kind of boomers (as there exists toxic people in all kinds of people) are what you're delaing with now.
I'm telling you this because once I understood this fact, their shitty rants became lighter to me. The frame of their minds are totally detached to reality. They're idiots, so forgive them. Because once you've understood that they're basically disillusioned idiots, your load will get lighter.
ReplyThis is true. In the 1950s anxiety or panic attacks would have been considered a very important psychiatric disorder. People didn't have the issues they have now. It was a much simpler time mentally even though life was harder in some ways. Why post this here is such an angry manner? Has someone on this site said something to upset you?
ReplyIn response to the first answer: no baby boomers are disillusioned idiots. They don't know what is going on mentally with young people these days. And unless young people tell them how would they know?
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